Yes, the appetizer round called for the following ingredients: already-prepped deviled eggs, Canadian smoked cheddar, venison sausages and…get ready for it…rainbow cake decorations. In other words, rainbow sprinkles. Why are ingredients this season so…odd? Anyway… Can you SERIOUSLY incorporate this into a non-dessert? So what can you make with this? Let’s think OUTSIDE of the […]
Toronto Fashion Week starts next Monday. Yes, it’s now “officially” called Toronto Fashion Week. I’m looking forward to the Fall/Winter 2016 shows. Kind of. I don’t know. Many of my favourites are back (though Pink Tartan is NOT showing for some reason), including Hillary MacMillian and Triarchy and Greta Constantine will be closing the week […]
Today is International Women’s Day. I’m not going to go on ranting about how we make less than men (true, but not exactly true at the same time, according to this Globe and Mail article. It sometimes has to do with the choices WE MAKE in the type of jobs WE TAKE. The so-called “mommy […]
The basket for the main course were as follows: peach drink box (ew!), beef tongue, pinto beans and salsa morita. Well, that’s an easy thing – kind of – enchiladas! Better yet, deconstructed enchiladas. Raw beef tongue One might think that the peach drink can be used as part of the sauce, perhaps giving the […]
Us late Xers and early Millennials grew up watching Full House on Friday evenings, and later, Tuesdays. And now that the sequel (can we call it a sequel?) has launched on Netflix, many may be binge-watching the first season, which launched on February 26. I still have a few more episodes to watch (at least […]
The mystery ingredients were a bit tougher this week – for me to come up with something, anyway. After a few days of thinking (or over-thinking, I suppose), I’ve decided that maybe a green radish, goat cheese cheese and hemp bite stuffed capon might do the trick (the ingredients in the main course basket were […]
La Maison Simons (aka Simons) opens its first store in the GTA on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day at Square One Shopping Centre in Mississauga. This 175 year old Quebec-based department store (and oldest still-running family business in Canada) is truly a store for EVERYONE, with price points ranging from affordable to higher end. On […]
If you ever eat bitter melon with my dad, he’ll tell you a story of how guys in his university residence “forced” him to eat bitter melon because that was the only thing available for dinner said evening (because everything was shared family style, as per Chinese custom and the guys KNEW my dad hated […]
Well, not for another two years, but still (and hopefully, the markets will be a bit less volatile. Not super-happy with my investment portfolio right now, but at least the markets opened higher today (February 16)). I’m not surprised that they are – Yonge and Bloor is slowly becoming more “mid-range” or entry level lux, […]
Using the current model, fashion weeks in pretty much ALL MARKETS show clothing which won’t be available for months – typically showings are held approximately four or five months before pieces hit the market. In other words, it has not caught up with social media. And since every single fashion publication is on social, most […]
